
A new educational focus is emerging in some institutions of higher education. These schools are taking an interdisciplinary approach to educating tomorrow’s information professionals, by mixing together science, technology, social science, and design. These new programs are beginning to educate students in these new professions – not as programmers or coders or software developers, but as professional analysts, architects, and creators of our planet’s critical information infrastructure.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
eScience and eResearch
The "killer app" over the next ten years in the information professions is going to be eResearch and its close cousin eScience. Scientific research (and other kinds of research as well) suffer from powerful information management, organization, and retrieval problems. Who has the tools and know-how to sort out these problems?
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